Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1929 — Page 20

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WILLARD. RINGGOLD. RHODIUS LEAD KITTEN BALL LEAGUES WITH SIX CONSECUTIVE WINS

Teams Have Standing of 1.000 Per Cent So Far in Season. OAKHILL IS SECOND Four Girls’ Teams Also Show Perfect Records. -p-interf'd ash bat? and ripped and torn covers on playground baseballs, rollf-cted at citv recreation offices br-ar mute testimony to the fact 'ha* younger Indianapolis is taking its ' kitten'’ ball seriously. Team standings and batting averages are being watched by the would-be big leaguers as anxiously rhp squad of a major league team. Now that the season is well under way several teams are showing championship material. Willard of League l. Ringgold of League 3, and Rhoriius of League 3. all have a standing of 1.000. Oakhill and Highland in League 4 are tied with standings of .333. Team standings for all four 1/cagUf t won l-ost Pet. ' Jv 6 0 1 000 ;'_' a 4 2 .666 •„ p ; ,f.„ ":j 33 .soo g[ u - f >oa [3 3 .son ' n f Ibbo - T .,_ Won Lost. Pot . r J 6 0 1 ot'f) ;, fin 1 000 *"• 4 ; .666 ' • rh 1 ft !i66 ■£, •••;;; 1 s .166 League 3 T(W Won Lost Pot ~ 33 .500 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ? s :U Lfajuf 4 T „_ ~ Won Lost Pot _ 1 '-.y 5 t .833 2*".: ri ft 1 .833 Week 2 661 ~ - t 333 Barter jrd rdeli .. 0 '* 000 V 'cot’t ....... f> * 000 Four Teams Perfect Four teams have a standing of j 1 000. They are Fall Creek, of | I<v ;ue 1: Brightwood. of League 3, and Kansas and Meridian end Meikel of League 4. Meikel has . or.lv plaved one game, winning it. Standings of teams in the girls' | leagues are: l earue 1 Won Lost Pet. 2 0 1 000 TrrtUmnla '. 1 t .500 r,‘ n Sullivan . 1 1 - 500 sr ties' .. 0 1 • 00 ° I tacur 2 Won Lost Pot. r.irneld .... 3 ' .750 f rP l, r 2 1 .666 p ncffrttd O 3 000 i , f 2 1 06® wntard 1 2 -333 l eague 3 Won Lost Pot. p r;e htnood 2 0 1.000 X.m , . 2 1 .666 Christian ’.3 2 .500 Brookside ..1 2 .333 Fllenberger 0 2 .000 leaior t Won Lost Pot. Kr-2an a-,d Meridian.. 2 o 1000 Mifi-el l o i.ooo Sri 00l on 2 1 .666 i Rbndtus l i .500 Kinsar.'s 1 2 .333 Rilev 0 3 .000 Miekel and Wyoming I.eads Tn the Negro girls teams Miekel and Wyoming has the highest j standing, .750. Standings are: Tram Won Lost Pot i Miekel and Wyoming.. 3 1 .750 Norwood 1 1 .500 ! Cr id Sullivan 1 1 .500 I Douglass o 1 .000 ! Fall Creek 0 1 .000 UNITED BRETHREN HOLD LEADERSHIP CLASSES Student? From Three States at Church School Here. Students from three stares are enrolled in the leadership training I school of the northwest district of j the United Brethren church, being held at Indiana Central college un- j til July 26. Dr. C. E. Ashcraft, professor of religious education at Theological seminary, is dean of the school. The school offers courses in Bible. Sunday school and Christian Enel' . vor methods, psychology, science of leadership, and recreation. It is being held under the auspices of Bishop H. H. Font. Indianapolis, head of the northwest district. Forty-five students are enrolled. Other leaders of the school are: Dr. C W. Brevybaker, director of evangelism. Dayton. O.: J. Gordon Howard. Dayton, Young People's superintendent of the U. B. church: the Rev W. R. Montgomery, pastor Freeden Memorial church, Terre Haute: the Rev. M. T. Webber. Chicago: Mrs. J. R. Howe. Dayton; James Weber. Dayton, assistant to Young People's director: Miss Alice Miller. New Albany, and Miss Janet Gilbert. Dayton. Plant Project Advances MARION. Ind.. July 19.—A contract made by the board of works with the Burmp Construction Company. Columbus. 0.. for installation oi a water softening and iron removal p’ant has been approved by the city council when an ordinance, the first legal step, was passed on s first reading. It will be finally acted upon at a special council meeting Tuesday.

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Kiss Me Again Artistry that would make Romeo and Juliet look like a couple of pikers was displayed in a kissing contest at Dearborn playground Wednesday, staged by Mrs. Rose Chadwick, matron. But there is nothing to get excited about, says Mrs. Chadnick, the kisses were of candy. The kisses were to be wrapped in paper, unwrapped and eaten. The child consuming the greatest number of kisses in a specified time, won.

SAND BEPLIGA MADE BY BOYS Children Create Highland Playground Model. A detailed model of the entire playground was built in the sand pile at Highland this week, including the baseball diamond, places for swings and other important items of the ground. Ownie Sullivan and Timothy O'Connor were the young designers. Instructive and useful handcraft work is being carried on by the girls, who are making purses and quilts. The purses are made in colors to match some favorite part of the girls’ wardrobe. A bean-carrying contest is planned, beans being carried on a knife by contestants. A peanut hunt, with a first and booby prize was held recently. Maypole vaulting is getting atten:ion from the children in practice for the playground meet at the close of the season. A clever chain contest is planned.

WARFLEIGH HAS NEW SPEEDWAY Novel Sport Increases Attendance at Park. Emily Pond, instructor at the city's smallest playground, Warfleigh. on White river west of College avenue, is pointing with pride this week to the new race track built for the game “speedway” recently originated at Broadway and Sixtyfirst street playground. The new’ track is dug to represent in every detail the Indianapolis speedway, and the sod that had to be dug up has been used to recover the banked turns. Many of the older boys are now’ coming to the playground. Miss Pond says, their interest having been aroused by the new’ game. Many parents bring their children here. An interest in sewing is being worked up among the girls. PLAYGROUND TO PRESENT PLAY Rader. Udell Center Plan Production Soon. A paper sale was held at Rader and Udell playground last Saturday to raise money for costumes for a play to be staged in the near future. According to Miss Betty Bagnolia the sale was not a success. Story telling is one of the favorite morning amusements for the children here. Games are popular in the evening. Many of the girls are sewing on the costumes to be used in their play, making up for the deficiencies of their paper sale. Maypole jumping is being practiced for the field meet to be held at the close of the season.

RINGGOLD PLAYGROUND PICNIC GAINING FAVOR Contests Mark Weeekly Event In Which Elders Join. The Wednesday picnic at Ringgold playground is a weekly event with children, and sometimes mothers or older sisters bring lunches for the noonday period. Races are run. contests held and everything done to make this event an old-time picnic gathering. Tire matrons give prizes to winners of different contests and events. Four classes are being held in the swimming pool here, boys and girls alternating in instruction and swimming periods. Busses Supplant Street Cars En Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. July 19.—Two new passenger busses of the Interstate Public Service Company, which will supplant street cars running to two suburbs. Maple Grove and East Columbus, will be placed in operation in a few days.

Mid-Season Activities Claim City Playgrounds

Upper Right—Prize sand pile at 1 Lower The Junior Melody Boys, “) i , fi. f. < L *

Upper Left—Part of a group of children lining up before starting a treasure hunt at Golden Hill playground. Upper Right—Prize sand pile at Dearborn playground. Mountains, valleys and miniature landscaping were a part of the design.

Speedway Classic Is Duplicated in Game

Novel Contest Over Miniature Course Popular at Playground. The new playground at Broadway and Sixty-first street has the distinction of starting a game that bids fair to be taken up by boys all over the country. Harold Anderson of 606 East Sixty-first street, is an ardent speedway race fan and thinks in terms of banked turns, lap prizes and pit stops. As the speedw’ay sweepstakes occur once a year only he decided to originate anew game, Speedway. A miniature speedway is laid out just like the famous one at Speedway City. The turns are banked, pits are dug at the sides and the read bed sunk about three inches under the level of the ground. A starting place is marked off with a line on which to place the tiny toy racing cars. Each player has a marble and shoots it from the starting line as far as he can around the track. When the marble comes to a stop, that is the position his car must

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Center—One of the coolest spots In the city, Warfleigh bathing beach. Lower—The Junior Melody Boys, a group of boys ranging from 9 to 13. who are giving free concerts at city playgrounds this summer.

take. Two laps of the track are made at the start of the race and the player to get his car around with the least number of shots gets the pole position and first shot of the race. A racer who shoots his marble into one of the pits at the takeoff loses his turn, or position. Races are run for ten, twenty-five and fifty laps with the winner going around in the shortest time. According to the matron and instructors at this ground the game has greatly increased the attendance since it was started. It is planned to hold a long race in the near future. HOOSIER DEMONS WIN Bright wood Girls’ Team Loses Baseball Game. The Hoosier Demons, a baseball team comprised of employes or exemployes of the city recreation department, won from Brightwood last Sunday. 14 to 7. Brightwood is one of the teams of the girls’ league.

STRANGERS USE LOT Riverside Playground Is Popular With Tourists. Riverside playground enjoys the distinction of having more children from out of the state than any other. The ground is located just right for tourists to stop and eat. or rest and in this way children from many states spend an hour or a morning or afternoon on the ground and then leave. On account of this it is extremely difficult for matrons and instructor to plan any definite programs. About 100 children is the average daily attendance here on week days with the number jumping to 500 on Sunday.

MOTHERS ARE AIDED BY CITY PLAYGROUNDS Relieve Parents of Children’s Care; 750 Attend Brookside. One example of what the city playgrounds can mean to mothers with children was demonstrated at Brookside this week. A picnic was held by the 20-Year Club of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and mothers bringing children let them play and amuse them-

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'.-elves on the playground at the park while they talked to their friends attending the picnic. The average attendance at this ground has risen to around 750 each j day. Sewing clubs, volley ball, base- ! ball, story hours and sand pile contests are major parts of the day’s program here. Hawthorne to Hold Net Tourney The third annual tennis tournament at Hawthorne playground will be held Saturday. A cup will be | given as a prize.

JULY 19, 1929

CITY SWIMMING MEET WILL BE HELD ON ADO, 5

Ellenberger Pool Will Bo | Scene of Championship Events. The place and rules for the citr ; playground and pool championship swimming meet to be held Aug. 5, j were announced today by Brurs j Hunter of the city recreation department. The meet, will be held |at Ellenberger pool. Names of en- ! trants should be sent to Hunter m j charge of the recreation departjrcent. city hall. j Prizes to be awarded this year inielude ribbons for first, second and ithird places in each event. In re- | lay races only the first team will receive ribbons. Special prizes will also be given for soirp events. Only those who attend a city playground or pool and who also qualify with age requirements are eligible. Three Age Groups The age groups are: Under 13 years, junior group: under 17 year , intermediate groups: 17 years or over, senior group. Contestants are. not permitted to race in more than one group. Those who wish to make their entry at their own grounds should hand their names, age and name of playground to an instructor, who will hand them in to the recreation department not later than Friday, Aug. 2. In the scoring, first place wT.’ count. 5 points; second place, 1 points, and third place. 1 point. In the relay race, first place counts 10, second place. 6. and third place. 2. The list of events includes: JUNIORS—GirI: 30-vard free style. -30yard back stroke. Boys: 30-yard fre* style. 30-yard back stroke. INTERMEDIATES—GirI: 50-vard free style, 50-yard breast stroke. GiVis: 50-yard free style, medley relay rape, diving contest . SENIORS—GirIs: 100-yard free style, dying contest. Boys: 100-yard free stylo, medley .-relay race, diving contest. A special event will be juvenile diving for boys and girls. All diving will be from low board. In the medley relay race the first entrant swims fifty yards back stroke; next, fifty yards breast stroke, and the last fifty yards free style.

PLAY WILL BE GIVEN South Side Children to Present ‘The Lantern.’ “The Lantern,” a two-act play by Abbie Terwell Brown, will be given soon by the children of the South Side Turner’s playground. The setting is laid in America at the time of revolution. In the cast are Thelma Mclntosh, as Mrs. Brackett; Ethel Sommer. Barbara Brackett: Ruby Steinhauer. Deb Brackett: Eileen O’Dwyer. Tim Brackett, and Dolores Arterburn aa Jack Brackett. Tliere are no boys parts in the play. For the boys boxing matches are being staged. Baby races and jumping coiv--. ; .ts also are in high favor, according to the matrons. PAGEANT IS PLANNED Orchard Playground Arrange?, for August Ev-nt. Orchard playground is centering attention on the pageant to be given in August. The tennis court, built by the bo-?’ instiuctor with the help of neighborhood bovs. is in constant demand.